Card case



Aug. 6,. 19429.

l.. '.N. DUNCAN CARD CASE Filed May 1.5, 1927 FIG. 4.

IN VENT 0R Patented Aug. 6, 1929.

LEE NORMAN DUNCAN, OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA. Y

CARD

Application filed May 13,

This invention relates to a card case, out of which one card at a time can be taken without bending one away from another, fumbling among the cards, or in any way touching or interfering with any of the others in the stack while taking the one.

The object of the invention is to provide for the automatic selection of one card at a time from a stack. Further objects ot' the invention are to provide the simlilcst and most inexpensive method for the accomplishment of the desired results.

The invention, mechanically, may be pressed in any suitable embodiment, but

the one shown may perhaps be the preferred form or arrangement.

On the sheet of drawings uccolnpauylug and forming a part of the specilication,

Figure 1 is a partial perspective of the card case inverted, showing the cards in place and the position of the card selector (spring bar hooked at one end) in relation to the position of the cards;

Figure 2 shows a similar view, only in reversed position;

Figure 3 is an enlarged view similar to Figure 2, designed to show more distinctly the position of a card on the hook of the selector;

And Figure 4 is a front elevation view oi the card case. The case 5 is to be of rigid, box-like construction, made of, and covered by, material to suit demand and manufacture, and is provided with a flap 6, and the usual .finger clearance 7 to facilitate the proper and uninterrupted removal of a card with the fingers.

Between the covering of the case and the CASE.

1927. Serial No. 191,102.

body thereof, a hook 8 overhangs the edge of the finger clearance 7 (see Figure 3) and from this hook depends a spring bar 9 which terminates in a hook or hea-lr 10 sufliciently lateral of the spring bar 9 to permit the deposit ol only one card at a time (see the card 11 in Figure 3).

l/Vhen the case is turned upside-down (see Figure 1) all the cards rest on the biuht of the flap 6. When the case is then. turned right-sideup (see Figure 2) the cards :Fall to the opposite end except the one card. which is caught by the liool'r 10 and held in elevation above the contour oil the finger clearance 7 ready to be easily removed with the fingers (see card 1 1 in Figure Se long as there is provided a mechanical cardcatcher that will catch one card at a time :from a paclc and hold that card in relative elevation to the others, it makes no dil'liorence as to the method of forming lthe card catcher.

What I claim as new and des-sire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A card case comprising a casing, a spring bar suitably secured within said casing, a flange on the free end ol' the spring har l'or engaging and holding in elevation one card from a pack when the card rase is tilted from an inverted to a normal pos' lion, and a lla-p carried by said case to retain the cards when the case is in the tilted position.

Signed at Oklahoma City, in the county of Oklahoma and State of (')llahiunm this the 7th day of May, in the year oi our Lord, nineteen hundred and twentyf-seveii.

LEE NORMAN DUNCAN. 

